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The Cambrian AI Landscape: Cerebras Systems

by Karl Freund | Feb 24, 2021 | In the News

This startup stands alone with its innovative Wafer-Scale Engine for AI and HPC Let’s take an updated look at one of the most interesting AI startups: Cerebras, which came out of stealth in August 2019. The company has an unheard-of aggressive design, using an entire...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: NVIDIA, The 800Lb Gorilla

by Karl Freund | Feb 23, 2021 | In the News

NVIDIA is the 800 lb. gorilla in the AI hardware space. The company invests heavily in silicon, systems, and software to maintain that leadership position. This blog is an excerpt from the AI Competitive Landscape Report which is available to subscribers. Early...

Beware The AI Benchmarks!

by Karl Freund | Feb 19, 2021 | In the News

Common Pitfalls In AI Benchmark Claims Most AI hardware purchase decisions follow lengthy evaluations running models and data representative of the application under development. Thats how decisions are made, and should be made. However, in typical AI hardware...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Intel

by Karl Freund | Feb 18, 2021 | In the News

Intel has adopted a "Domain-Specific Architecture" strategy espoused by John L. Hennessy, Alphabet Chairman and former President of Stanford University. Consequently, the company has at least one of everything: CPU, GPU, ASICs, and FPGAs. While this may appear to be a...

NVIDIA Outperforms Itself Once Again

by Karl Freund | Dec 3, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor

When the only company you can beat is yourself, what do you do? After all, you are the leader, right? And nobody else is even suited up and on the court. Some companies might rest on their laurels, saving money and slowing down R&D. NVIDIA is not one of those...

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As we said, Google is the Exception to the Rule!

by Karl Freund | September 5, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

The latest TPU and the upcoming Ironwood supercomputer were just the start Google is taking the next step in its quest to become a serious challenger to Nvidia GPUs. As I recently noted in my post on CSP silicon costs and failures, Google is the exception. Google...

SiFive Lands $175M Financing

by Karl Freund | March 23, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Valued At Over $2.5B, SiFive Is Set To Challenge Arm, And x86 Vendors SiFive, Inc., today announced it has raised $175 million in a Series F financing round, valuing the RISC-V company at over $2.5 billion. The Series F round was led by Coatue Management. SiFive...

NVIDIA Keeps The Performance Crown For AI Inference For The 6th Time In A Row

by Karl Freund | September 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

In The Data Center And On The Edge, the bottom line is that the H100 (Hopper-based) GPU is up to four times faster than the NVIDIA A100 on the newly released MLPerf V2.1 benchmark suite. The A100 retains leadership in many benchmarks versus other available products...

Cerebras Publishes 7 Trained Generative AI Models To Open Source

by Karl Freund | March 28, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI company is the first to use Non-GPU tech to train GPT-based Large Language Models and make available to the AI community. The early days of an open AI community, sharing work and building on each other’s success, is over. As there is now much more money at...

Nvidia Sweeps AI Benchmarks While AMD Misses The Boat. Again.

by Karl Freund | March 27, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia did not submit results for Blackwell either, as it wasn’t ready when results had to be submitted, but still won the race with the Hopper GPU by up to 4X. Too bad for AMD, as they probably have the most to gain by publishing results for the MI300, even if Hopper...

Synopsys Laps Competition With Second Generation AI

by Karl Freund | August 23, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

EDA Leader Synopsys paints path to Software-Designed Si Last year, EDA leader Synopsys announced it had developed an AI chip design instrument called DSO.ai that could produce faster, lower cost, and more power-efficient chips by using an AI to figure out how to best...

SiFive Is Leading The Way For Innovation On RISC-V

by Karl Freund | August 14, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company appears well positioned to challenge CPU incumbents with high performance RISC-V CPUs and Vector Extensions to the open ISA architecture. The RISC-V CPU Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is emerging as a serious challenger to current CPUs based on...

Cadence Supercomputer Appliance Enables Full-Scale Digital Twins

by Karl Freund | February 1, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD, software simulates the flow of fluids around an object in fine detail and is indispensable to auto and aerospace manufacturers. But it takes a lot of FLOPS to simulate how a full system (a car, plane, jet engine, ...) behaves in...

Cadence AI Can Increase Chip Design Quality And Chip Designer Productivity Over 1000%

by Karl Freund | June 13, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

EDA company’s clients have finished hundreds of new tapeouts using Cadence Cerebrus AI to speed development and make chips that run faster, use less energy, and cost less. For Cadence, AI is all about increasing engineering teams’ productivity, speeding higher...

How AI Changes The Role Of Memory Companies And Their Value

by Karl Freund | October 14, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

As GPU’s become a bigger part of data center spend, the companies that provide the HBM memory needed to make them sing are benefitting tremendously. AI system performance is highly dependent on memory capacity, bandwidth and latency. Consequently, memory technology is...